Author: Prakash Das
Date: 22:50:09 05/26/99
Reading this board (on an occasional basis) that Rebel will be using the fastest PC available, I hopped over to the rebel site, and see Ed's site boasting of using a Kyrotech. It occurred to me whether the various programs will be competing on their own chosen hardware? Thus, one participant would bring a fast computer while another will be using something else. This will surely hurt the guy on the slower computer. Shouldn't an event like wmcc be held on even hardware for all? Otherwise, what's the meaning of these results. Considering that the result will be used heavily for marketing purposes, etc. On another note, for a user like me, it doesn't matter if Rebel (just an example), finishes first using the fastest PC.. I never use the fastest processor, so the results are bit meaningless for me as user. What's the point of using the fastest processor etc, for the majority of end users? Even some older programs would do well, given the best hardware around. (I hope Rebel is not going to loudly use it's results for marketing. It already showed in the GM game it has big holes in positional understanding.)
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